The Supreme Court took another pass Thursday at some of this year’s highest profile cases, pushing back big decisions on same-sex marriage, voting rights and affirmative action until at least next week.

The court instead handed down decisions about prostitution pledges for federal HIV/AIDS funding, merchants joining up for lawsuits against American Express and sentences for violent felons with repeat offenses.

The pressure to hear rulings on the high profile cases did not escape Justice Elena Kagan, who delivered the first opinion shortly after 10 a.m. EDT.

Before weighing in convictions of repeat offenders, she prefaced: This is “probably not what you’re here for this morning.”

In a win for private health organizations, the court also ruled that the government could not force groups to adopt certain ideologies — such condemning prostitution — to receive federal funding.

Chief Justice John Roberts said while typically, groups can choose not to accept federal funding to avoid the issue, he said the line in the U.S. AID policy was unclear.

“It’s not enough to say, don’t take the money … [This policy] does more. It tells the organization what it must believe in,” Roberts said, backing free speech rights for aid recipients. The organization, Alliance for Open Society International, had refused to adopt the so-called prostitution pledge to avoid turning away clients.

The second case delivered Thursday held that businesses could not break arbitration agreements with American Express to join a class action — even if individual merchants could not afford to take action alone.